ReBoot Geek Code

[Kim McFarland]

So I've been thinking about silly, nonsensical things to do related to ReBoot
and stick up on my page 'cos for the moment I'm sick of transcribing and in the
middle of writing a story that ain't gomma be finished any time soon. And I
thinks, why not make a Geek Code for ReBoot?

What's a "Geek Code"? The basic idea of a "Geek Code" is to tell a bit about
your interests in a very small space. There are a number of codes in use now,
from the classic, very exhaustive "Geek Code" to the short-and-sweet "Disney
Afternoon Code". Each code covers a certain specific area of interest, packs a
lot of information into a tiny space, and is generally meant to be understood
by those with the same interests who also know the code. These codes are
usually appended onto a user's .sig file.

I've already made up one of these: The Space Geek Code for the Space Ghost
fandom ( http://members.aol.com/essobmcc/brakbook/sgeek.htm ). Here's what my
Space Geek code looks like, for example:

INTERRUPT TRANSMISSION
GHOST PLANET CODE V1.2: CHSg+Zo+++Mo++Br++++Lo+++Tz+Bw-/+Ch---Ra++Dn++ C2C+++
Yankovic
"Pilot" CP+++ "Crazy Lovesick Fool" "Babies" U++ L+++ W++++ Sf33 Fs Gga.us
C+++pc
RESUME TRANSMISSION

The two nonsense lines in the middle give a lot of info in a little space. It
tells how much I like ten characters, my favorite episodes, guests, and skits
in two different shows, how I participate in online fandom, and a small bit of
info about myself. If you know how the code works, it's quite easy to read.

So... whaddaya think about something like this for the ReBoot fandom? If
anyone is interested, I can whomp up one of these for ReBoot.

--- NEGADUCK

"Ahh, A beautiful dove. The symbol of peace. How sweet. Perhaps I should
feed it... To a CAT!"

The Negapage: http://members.aol.com/negaduck9/negapage.htm

[Lightwave]

Kim McFarland wrote in message <

>
>INTERRUPT TRANSMISSION
>GHOST PLANET CODE V1.2: CHSg+Zo+++Mo++Br++++Lo+++Tz+Bw-/+Ch---Ra++Dn++
C2C+++
>Yankovic
>"Pilot" CP+++ "Crazy Lovesick Fool" "Babies" U++ L+++ W++++ Sf33 Fs Gga.us
>C+++pc
>RESUME TRANSMISSION
>
>The two nonsense lines in the middle give a lot of info in a little space.
It
>tells how much I like ten characters, my favorite episodes, guests, and
skits
>in two different shows, how I participate in online fandom, and a small bit
of
>info about myself. If you know how the code works, it's quite easy to
read.
>
>So... whaddaya think about something like this for the ReBoot fandom? If
>anyone is interested, I can whomp up one of these for ReBoot.
>
>--- NEGADUCK

can it be in binary?
like this converter...
http://www.theinfo.org/programs/binary/
ah but it may just make it larger :P

001010000010000000101111\00101111\001000000010100101001100011010010110011101
1010000111010001110111011000010111011001100101

[XRadicaIDreamer]

I like the Geek Code idea. Binary just takes up too much space.

~Cat
"Am I a butterfly dreaming I'm a man? Or a bowling ball dreaming I'm a plate
of sashimi? Never believe that what you see or hear is real!"

This is two sentances...I think...I dunnae remember >.<

01001101011101110110000101101000011000010110100001100001011010000110000100
10111000101110001011100110001001101001011011100110000101110010011110010010
00000110100101110011001000000110001101101111011011110110110000101110001000
00001000000100100100100000011011000110100101101011011001010010000001110100
01101000011001010010000001000111011001010110010101101011001000000100001101
10111101100100011001010010000001101001011001000110010101100001001000000110
00100110010101110100011101000110010101110010001011000010000001110100011010
000110111101110101011001110110100000101110

[Patrick Mc Namara]

Hexidecimal would work, of course it would be easier to assign values to
each individual episode.
Season 3 would be the easiest since it already has a code (version number)
for each episode.
Individual characters could be assigned values, such as 1 for Bob, 2 for
Dot, 16 for Hexidecimal etc.

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"XRadicaIDreamer" <xradica...@aol.com> wrote in message
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[Kim McFarland]

>Hexidecimal would work, of course it would be easier to assign values to
>each individual episode.

Nice idea - however, the idea of a geek code is not to show off mathematical
prowness. It's to create a code that people in the know can *read and
interpret easily,* on sight, without having to pass it through a
binary/hex/rot13/whatever decoder.

[Patrick Mc Namara]

"Kim McFarland" <nega...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010503232705...@ng-cq1.aol.com...

> >Hexidecimal would work, of course it would be easier to assign values to
> >each individual episode.
>
> Nice idea - however, the idea of a geek code is not to show off
mathematical
> prowness. It's to create a code that people in the know can *read and
> interpret easily,* on sight, without having to pass it through a
> binary/hex/rot13/whatever decoder.
>

What I mean is to use Hexidecimal substitutes for words (check previous
posting).

[Jamina1]

So.. uhm.. how do you read it? I get the words in "'s as being skits or show
titles, and I can guess that the Yankovic is for Weird Al most likely.
However.. what is the rest of it?? Please translate. Oh, and here's a little
joke for y'all.

0101011101101000011000010111010000100000011001000110100101100100001000000111
01000110100001100101001
0000001100011011011110110110101110000011101010111010001100101011100100010000
00111001101100001011110
0100100000011101000110111100100000011101000110100001100101001000000111011001
10100101110010011101010
1110011001111110010000001001000011001010111100100100001001000000101100101101
11101110101011000000111
0010011001010010000001101101011000010110101101101001011011100110011100100000
01101101011001010010000
00111001101101001011000110110101100100001

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---
Stay Frosty
---
Jamina

"Kim McFarland" <nega...@aol.com> wrote in message

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[Kim McFarland]

>So.. uhm.. how do you read it? I get the words in "'s as being skits or show
>titles, and I can guess that the Yankovic is for Weird Al most likely.
>However.. what is the rest of it?? Please translate.

I posted a link to the Space Geek code in the paragraph right before the code
itself. Here it is a second time.

>> I've already made up one of these: The Space Geek Code for the Space Ghost
>> fandom ( http://members.aol.com/essobmcc/brakbook/sgeek.htm ). Here's
>what my
>> Space Geek code looks like, for example:

--- NEGADUCK

[ma...@attcanada.ca]

Kim McFarland wrote:
>
> So I've been thinking about silly, nonsensical things to do related to ReBoot
> and stick up on my page 'cos for the moment I'm sick of transcribing and in the
> middle of writing a story that ain't gomma be finished any time soon. And I
> thinks, why not make a Geek Code for ReBoot?

I like the idea of a ReBoot code. There's a good one for Transformers -
which generates your code once you've filled in the values - and I'm
sure something for ReBoot would be just as great.

[Mike Shumko]

"Kim McFarland" <nega...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010503142400...@ng-fc1.aol.com...

> And I
> thinks, why not make a Geek Code for ReBoot?

Yay! Geek code is back!
I thought that died out years ago!
--
- Mike the TV

"Hey! Is there room in this crowded show for a cameo by everyone's favourite
talking television?"

[Kim McFarland]

>Yay! Geek code is back!
>I thought that died out years ago!

Well, we Booters are nuts for keeping dated computer and Internet references
alive. ;)